All posts tagged Women’s Rights

Pro life hypocrisy exposed again. Conservatives are consumate and continual liars. The guy who just sponsored legislation to limit womens’ reproductive rights asked his girlfriend to get an abortion.

It’s almost as if these men are fighting to make abortion a crime because they’re more invested in curtailing women’s options and controlling their bodies than they are with saving innocent lives.

But what Mr. Murphy’s moral flexibility ultimately reveals is that, for these particular hard-line anti-abortion politicians, it’s not about fetal pain or the sanctity of life. It’s all about control — whether you’re telling a woman she can’t have an abortion, or forcing a woman to get one.

We know it’s already over for the Presidential race, but its going to take years to work through all the broken things this election has exposed. Years!…a very tremendous amount of years it’s going to take.

This column is a great, albeit painfully amusing, summary to date of the most obvious wrongs to start with. There’s still a few weeks left to add some additional transgressions.

Is there a double standard for women in politics?
Imagine if it were Hillary Clinton who had had five children by three husbands…

The Olympics and other large sporting events are a disgusting mess which don’t deserve the money and attention we lavish on them. They do no good for the countries and cities which host them. Ask the citizens of Greece, China, and Russian if they are better off for having flushed tons of cash down the drain. There may have been a time when the kumbaya BS was helpful, but that time has passed. Now the good from two weeks of supposed “unity” is overwhelmed by the bad that flows from nations throwing money better spent elsewhere at athletics and sports.

The doping, the corruption, allowing pros in amateur competition; it’s lost its value. Besides, to the rich go the spoils. Just as Formula 1 races go to the teams with the most money, so go the Olympic medals to the best funded countries.

Having said that, if this debacle brings changes to the plight of women and reduces the humiliations and discrimination they are subjected to maybe we’re all a little better off.

Why do we not address two important issues in this case about insurance and contraception? First is that the right to religious freedom is extended to individuals, and their churches by extension. Businesses, schools, and non profits are not religious by their very nature. They shouldn’t be considered eligible for the right to religious freedom.

The second is that employer sponsored healthcare is what’s wrong with this whole conversation. Employers should not be involved in healthcare. Health insurance should have no relationship to employment status and employers should have no say in what is offered or received. Until we divorce our health insurance from our employers we are going to have unnecessary and sticky issues.

The staff here thinks of itself as respectful of all well thought out and objectively presented opinions even if they go against core beliefs.

This article is a well written explanation of how the ACA forces Catholic nuns and others to forego their right to religious freedom. We don’t have to agree with their beliefs to support their right to exercise them. Individually. Not as an employer.

We recognize that not everyone agrees with us, and that the government will make laws and provide services we don’t support. But in a free and diverse society, the American government should not force its citizens to act in violation of their religious beliefs

What we see wrong with the situation is two fold. The less important is that by being a religious employer the employer entity doesn’t have the right to freedom of religious beliefs. The more important thing is that health insurance shouldn’t be provided by employers. If that weren’t the defacto method of receiving health insurance we wouldn’t have to have this discussion about abortion and contraception.

We seem to look right over the obvious solution to what’s wrong with health insurance. For most people it’s tied to their jobs. This needs to change.